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Photography

Photography is an art form like drawing and painting. The word photography is a noun, derived from the Greek phot- for "light" and -graphos for "drawing“, together meaning "drawing with light“. Photographers use their camera to make us see life in a different way, feel emotions, and record stories and events.

On 1834, in Campinas, Brazil, Hercules Florence, a French painter and inventor, wrote in his diary the word "photographie" to describe his process. But on March 14, 1839, it was Sir John Herschel who made the word "photography" known to the world. Photography gained the interest of many scientists and artists from its inception. Scientists have used photography to record and study movements, such as Eadweard Muybridge's study of human and animal locomotion in 1887. Nowadays, photography cameras are common all around the world. Photography has many usages for business, science, manufacturing, art, recreational purposes, and mass communication.

All photography was originally monochrome, or black-and-white. Even after color film was readily available, black-and-white photography continued to dominate for decades, due to its lower cost and its "classic" photographic look. Many photographers continue to produce some monochrome images. Some full color digital images are processed using a variety of techniques to create black and whites, and some manufacturers produce digital cameras that exclusively shoot monochrome.

Color Photography was explored beginning in the mid-19th century. Early experiments in color required extremely long exposures (hours or days for camera images) and could not "fix" the photograph to prevent the color from quickly fading when exposed to white light.

Photography is divided into four main types, and they are:
Amateur
Commercial
Art
Science and forensics

Today I’m going to talk about the most used photography type, which is commercial photography.

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